Short Stuff: Sitzpinklers Unite | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

[Music]. hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm. Josh and there's Chuck and Ben's here. too sitting in for Jerry who usually. sits in for Dave it's very confusing so. let's forget the whole thing and get. started because this is short stuff hey. uh happy day after birthday friend oh. thank you very much I appreciate that. friend what'd you. do oh gez I can't really get into it. here but it was a good birthday okay. you'll tell tell me in private we had a.

good time but no I appreciate um you. getting those posts on social media up. that was very nice of you it made me. feel very loved hey of course people. love you and they said so in the in the. hundreds and thousands I know it was. really nice thanks a lot yeah you texted. me you're like you're getting a lot of. love over on Instagram right now well I. have to get you to open Instagram yeah I. know it works like a charm it's no good. my good deed goes unseen if if you don't. watch it so um but thank you for that of. course uh we'll have to go back and edit.

all this out because this is short stuff. uh no that was only a minute 10 11 12. we're doing great all right well then we. have to talk really fast for the rest of. the episode well we're talking about. something near and dear to my. heart that I've talked about on stage in. front of thousands of people and that is. uh the fact that I not always but I. mostly try to sit down when I go pee. peee I do too I'm a Sit pinkler oh you.

you started doing that yeah I I think I. confessed along with you on stage in. Seattle too if I remember correctly but. yeah yeah no I totally now I own it at. the time I was a little wary now I'm. like yeah I sit down to pee it works. really well um the only time I don't is. in public because I would rather cut off. the lower half of my body than ever sit. on a public toilet seat yeah and if I. remember correctly my onstage joke was. that I sit to pee but I stand up when I.

poop that's right that was a classic uh. yeah I've been doing that though for I. feel like it's semi new like when in the. past like six or seven years uh I. started seeing down to p and the first. uh you know adult male that I saw doing. this was. my was my brother-in-law oh okay uh when. I brother-in-law yeah my brother-in-law. when I live with them my sister's. husband uh carsten who is German.

oh that makes sense because this is a. very German thing like there's even I. didn't know that I didn't either um I. think actually Yumi found this one um. because we were talking about I don't. remember what we were talking about we. looked it up and it turned out that this. is a big thing in Germany and they have. a word for it sits pinkler can you say. it with a German accent yeah. Hasselhoff I wonder if he does uh no you. said it right basically uh sits sit.

pinka yeah there you go that's what I. was looking for you just got to add a. little flare it makes sense too that the. Germans would have a word for it because. the Germans have a word for everything. but the reason why a little bell went. off of my head when you said your. brother-in-law is German uh is because. it's a big deal in Germany as a matter. of fact there was a yugov poll of eight. Western European countries plus the US. Canada Mexico Australia and Singapore. and the whole point of this poll was to. find out where where men sit down to pee.

the most it was groundbreaking. scientific poll and Germany won out um I. didn't quite get this because it says. 62% of German men sit every time no a. combined 62% sit every time or most. times oh okay every time being 40% 22%. most times I got you yeah yeah yeah yeah. so I mean for the that means that for. the most part by far most German men.

are you'll find them sitting down when. they're peeing most of the time yeah and. behind them was uh Sweden at 50% Denmark. 44 uh Australia which kind of surprised. me at 39 I thought they would be pretty. low on the list yeah uh but the US. Mexico Britain and Singapore rounded out. between 20 and. 24% yeah which all of that's a little. surprising I thought Singapore would be. up there with you I thought Australia. would be down there because they're so. rough and tumble yeah you don't s to PE. that's such a sexist or misogynistic I.

don't know what it is exactly but it's. just a a a really kind of wrong thing to. assume like oh yeah Australians are. rough and tumble They Ride kangaroos. around and drink like 55 gallon drums of. Fosters and eat it Outback every. night um but if so of course they don't. sit down to pee and that's kind of like. this idea behind the sits pinkler thing. like it's used in Germany or it used to. be used as an insult like you're a Sit. pinkler you're kind of you're a feminine. you're um kind of a wuss um you're just.

not a manly man and somehow some way. German Society said nine yeah we're. taking that and we're going to own it. and we're going to turn it on its head. and we're going to start a campaign. starting around 2004 to basically train. German men to sit down to pee yeah I. love it uh they even have this this is. incredible um a device sort of like a uh. uh what do you call the things a duvet a. duvet a.

bedet you know mix spread a duet over. your toilet and then just pee all over. it nothing would Splash uh sort of like. a Beday you know some Beday talk to you. I know in Japan and uh Germany has kind. of gotten on that with their WC gist or. toilet ghost or spook uh spuk which is. Spook which is a person recording uh. person who has recorded a message that. says things like excuse me except in.

German there's a penalty for peeing. while standing in this house you better. not risk any problems and sit down yeah. so if you lift the toilet it triggers. that voice I kind of like that yeah. sometimes they'll be recorded in the. voice of a famous German Chancellor. sometimes it's just like a lion's roar. but I mean that's how invested in. getting men to sit down to pee they are. in Germany like they really take it. seriously and there's another country. that takes it at least as seriously and. that's Japan.

yeah and what I found very interesting. is that Japan I said that Germany like. really started this drive to get men to. sit down to P to turn men into sitz. pinkl and like 2004 the same thing. happened in Japan back in around 2000 in. fact there was a survey in 1999 only 15%. of Japanese men sat down to pee but by. 2020 it was up to 60% so something. really radical happened here on planet. Earth in the early 2000s that just has. turned everything on its head yeah or.

put everything on its bottom right uh. and I guess we'll come back and talk a. little bit about some of the reasons why. that might have happened right after. this. indubitably w. [Music]. [Applause].

[Music]. [Applause]. [Music]. so one thing I thought was you know. since the it really increased a lot over. the past like 20 years or so I thought. there may have been something I missed. like you know Captain America sat to pee. in a Marvel movie or something like that. but I couldn't find anything I think. it's just literally people men realizing.

that it's a lot more hygienic to sit. down and you risk a lot less uh almost. down to zero basically if you're doing. it right that there's going to be pee. elsewhere that's not in the toilet yeah. I think men finally started listening to. women when they're like this is so gross. why do you do this get out of the house. forever um yeah because it is so there's. a I mean when you sit down to pee your. chance of getting pee anywhere but in. the toilet is almost zero you're doing.

something really wrong if you're sitting. down to pee and PE spraying everywhere. right but there might be a duvet stuffed. in the toilet matter effect you might. want to check that God but if you stand. up to pee the chances are essentially. 100% that you're going to get PE. splatter somewhere some way sometimes. this is a terrible thing to say but it's. true some men just miss entirely and. they'll pee like basically behind the. toilet um they'll get it in front of the. toilet on the side sides there's a whole.

thing that every man listening knows. about um where there's a lot of. opportunity to get Pete outside of the. toilet bowl when you pee standing up. yeah and you know I was going to say not. to get too gross but I guess we're kind. of there already um yeah you know people. get distracted especially in the the age. you know I've seen plenty of grown men. on their smartphone like at a urinal. urinals by the way is a whole different. horror show that we won't even get into. cuz there's there's no way that P isn't. going places even if you're properly.

peeing in a urinal uh but I've seen guys. on their phone like you get distracted. and all of a sudden like you look down. you're like that's not going where I. thought it was going yeah not for 30. seconds but like you know all it takes. is as a second of a peee stream and. you've got a real mess on your hands. yeah and I think the thing that really. is the judge of character is whether you. correct your Course once you realize if. you just keep peeing off to the side of. the urinal you're a bad bad person well. bring uh Bram Young University they.

study fluid dynamics they in their. physics department and they actually did. studies on urine back spray uh when. you're standing up. and like I said even if you're doing it. perfectly right there's probably going. to be some kind of spray that's going. somewhere outside the toilet even if. it's just on the rim of the toilet yes. yes because there's a lot of factors. contributing to that that combin to. basically say you pe standing up P's.

going somewhere outside of the toilet. one is that when the urine stream exits. the penis toward the toilet bowl there's. a whole period where there it's not it's. just flying through the air yeah and for. about the first six inches after exits. said penis um it's held together in a. stream everything's going really well. and then after about 6 in past the exit. it enters What's called the plateau.

instability it's a fluid Dynamic uh. phenomenon where a stream of fluid. eventually breaks up as gravity starts. to pull it apart and it breaks up into. droplets and each one of those droplets. is going to hit that toilet bowl and. spray. everywhere yeah you nailed it um. porcelain is also a problem because if. you have a porcelain toilet which you. know chances are you probably do uh. porcelain is hydrophilic which means it. really loves fluid so it loves to splat.

it all over itself basically mhm um it's. very it's a very splatty surface that. you're peeing on um to be honest I might. be on something with the duvet thing. yeah I think you might um one of the. other things that people who are like. yes B A sits pinkler are all about is. emptying the bladder it's a big deal to. empty your bladder um it's not just for. the 40 plus crowd even though it really. is but you really want to make sure you. get all the PE out of your bladder. whenever you pee the reason everyone.

though does anyone pee to to 80% and be. like that feels good enough well no. there just off you you can you can run. into situations where you're um like you. can't like all you get out or you're. interrupted yeah okay right but I mean. even if you're not like that could be. all that like you can't get 100% out so. sometimes when you like no that's I get. you I think it has to do with prostate. but so people like sit down to. but this is a very fraught debate.

because medical researchers tend to say. if you're a man standing up to pee or. sitting down to pee depending on your. condition depending on how healthy you. are and how healthy your prostate is. it's not going to make any difference. whatsoever one way might help one guy. the other way might help another guy so. that's really not a very good argument. for getting people to sit down to pee. yeah so I I get all that now CU I in. fact myself since we're being honest. since this is just you and me talking.

and no one else is listening sure uh. have have reached that age where there's. like some prostate things where peeing. you know all of a sudden you wake up one. day in your 50s and you go to pee and. you're like huh nothing's happening. right so it's just going down my leg. Yeah so you call your doctor and they're. like oh well that's just what happens. you start to have some like little. prostate issues and nothing like super. serious usually but um no but that's. such a double-edged sword like on the. one hand you're like oh I'm so relieved. this isn't a terrible medical condition.

on the other hand what they're saying is. like get used to it buddy because this. is just what your body's doing from now. on yeah exactly uh women on the other. hand it's a different story um they. don't have the bladder you know when you. stand up to pee which you know. supposedly uh I don't think supposedly. standing up to pee does help a man empty. their bladder more fully uh but the. prostate is supporting us is supporting. that bladder women don't have the. prostate so if a woman is forc to PE. standing up on the side of the road.

behind the concert. venue uh at the campground in the shower. in the shower there are all manner of. reasons why a woman may have to go peee. standing up uh they don't have that. prostate supporting them so it's much. more difficult for them to to empty. their full contents yeah yeah the thing. is is so if they sit down to pee they're. much more prone to empty their bladder. ifof facto everybody should sit down and.

pee the problem is when you again when. you get into public and you hover above. the toilet seat to pee that actually has. a similar problem as when you're. standing up to pee but really if that's. your choice I feel like in that. situation just go with the not getting. 100% of your pee out right then yeah uh. and the one last thing I want to say is. I I get that a lot of men probably don't. sit down to PE still uh the statistics. tell me that at least but in the middle. of the night if you have to get up and. go potty uhhuh I just think it's the.

craziest thing I've ever heard of to try. and stand there and still try and stay. asleep and pee in that toilet that's how. it's that was the Gateway for me was in. the middle of the night because it just. makes sense well I remember the first. time it happened to me I accidentally. fell onto the toilet while I was peeing. into a sitting position and I was like. oh this is much. nicer I love it uh well Chuck says he. loves it I want to end on a high note.

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